Sabre Team

Sabre Team is a game in which the player leads an elite specialist strike team that defeats terrorists by rescuing their hostage and prisoners of war, and stopping their war machines.^[1] The terrorists are keeping five British soldiers as hostages.^[2]

The player commands a team of four Special Air Service operatives, and spends Action Points to make their moves.^[3] In each of five scenarios, the player chooses four of their eight team members to bring on the mission.^[4] Each mission involves the team saving all the hostages and killing all of the terrorists.^[5]

James V. Trunzo reviewed Sabre Team in White Wolf Inphobia #52 (Feb., 1995), rating it a 2 out of 5 and stated that "As with several games today, Sabre Team is a good idea (though not a very original one) that's poorly implemented. I keep trying out of a sense of fairness - maybe I am just a lousy player - but I think the game is flawed. It's overprices and too difficult. In spite of attractive graphics and some decent interface elements, the cons of Sabre Team overwhelm the pros."^[1]

Simon Byron for The One #50 said that "Sabre Team is one of the most engrossing action strategy games around".^[3]

Tony Dillon for CU Amiga rated the game 83% and said that "The computer puts up a realistic fight, and this creates just enough suspense for you to hold your breath every time an enemy soldier raises their weapon."^[4]

ST Action rated the game 94% and stated "Sabre Team is the best Strategy game your ever likely to see on the ST, the graphics are truly unbelievable and the sounds pretty damn hot as well."^[2]

Cam Winstanley for Amiga Power said that "the only criticism I've got is that it's only got five missions, which isn't enough".^[5]

The game has since been re-released for digital distribution on GOG and Steam in 2021.